Garment-hanger



F. L. OWEN.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FLED JULY 30,1919.

WI T/VESSES Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

INVENTOH a multiplicity o reference is had to the accompanying draw- 'and6, is provided a resilient clasp9, which is secured in position by means of screws or the like 10, and secured to the under edge STATES PATENT OFFICE.

rmannmox n OWEN, or BOSTON, massacnusnrrs.

shamananana v Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Application ill-ed July 30, 1919. .Serial No. 314,211.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. OWEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Allston, Boston, inv the county of 5 Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Garment- Hanger, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to new and useful. improvements in arment hangers, and it pertains more particularly to means for retaining the garments in place on the hangers. i K

In garment hangers as commonly construoted, great difliculty has been experi-. enced in keeping the arments in proper position when hanging t ereon, this being particularly true in the case of light-Wei ht garments, such as ladies blouses and t e like, and it is the primary object of the present invention to retain these garments in proper position on the'hanger.

A further-object of the present invention is to provideresilient means for this purpose, together with means for adjusting the tension of the resilient means for the purpose of permittin the device to be used with same hanger. 5 With the above and other objects in view,

ings in which- I Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a garment'hang'er of the folding type rovided with the attachment constituting t e present invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof; Y Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the hanger in its folded form; r r

Fig. 4'is a view in elevation of a modified form of the invention- Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view of a still fur- *th'er modified form of the invention.

Beferring more particularly to the draw ings, the hanger comprises two arms 5' and .6, which are pivoted together; as at 7,.the

pivoting member of said arms comprising book 8. U V, a

On the upper'edge of'each of the arms 5 a right-angular extension of a supporting garments placed on the of each of the arms 5 and 6, as by screws 11,.

are resilient'clasps 12, these clasps being relatively smaller than the clasps 9. The outer end of each of the clasps 9 and 12 is curved, as at 13, to prevent tearing of the garments on the han er and permit of their easy insert between 5'18 clasps and their respective arm Each of tie resilient clasps 9 and 12 is provided with a suitable opening, which openings when the clasps are in their proper position on the arms of the hanger, are adapted to aline with each other, and pass ing throu h' the openings in each of. the clasps an an opening a ined therewith in each of the arms 5 and 6, are bolts 15, the

lower end of each of which is threaded as at 16. Havin engagement with the threadedends 16 of t e bolts 15, are thumb nuts 17,

which are adapted to engage the smaller have been placed on the hanger, the nuts 17 are moved along their respective bolts 15, and the tension of the resilient clasps 9 and 12 is increased sufficiently to mam- -tain the garments in position on the hanger.

Fig, 4 shows a modified form of the invention in which an ordinary ri id garment hanger is employed, and sai hanger is provided on its upper edge on opposite sides of the supporting hook 21, with resilient clasps 22, which clasps are secured in place b means of screws 23. Passing through sultable perforations in the resilient clasps 22, are bolts 24, and each of said bolts 24 passes through an opening in the garment hanger, said openings being provided on opposlte sides of the sup orting hook 21. The lower end of each 0 the bolts 24 is screw-threaded as at 25, and mounted on the screw-threaded end of each of said bolts is a thumb nut 26, which latter is adapted to engage the under edge of the garment hanger to increase the tension of the resilient clas s 22.

In the orm of the invention shown in Fig. 5, the resilient clasps 22' are secured to the under side of the hanger 20. The tension of these clasps is regulated by means of the thumb'nut 26' threaded on the bolt 25, the head of which engages the resilient clasps as at 24'. The clas s 22 are secured to the under side of the anger 20 by means of bolts 23. It is to be understood that in this form of the invention, two resilient clasps 22 are employed, said clasps being arranged on opposite sides of the supportin, hook 21.

in t e form of the invention shown in Fig. 4:, the operation of the device is identical with that described above, the thumb nuts 26 being movable along the screwthreaded end 25 of the bolts 24: for increasing the tension of the resilient clasps 22 after the under.

Havin thus described the invention, What is c aimed as new is:

1. In a garment hanger, a pluralitylof resilient clasps secured thereto on opposite sides of the supporting hook, and means passin throughsaid resilient clasps and throug the garment hanger for regulating the tension of said resilient clas s.

2 In a garment han 'er, resilgient clasps rigidly secured to 'sai garment hanger bolts passing through said clas s and through the arms of the garment anger, and having a screw-threaded exterior, and

garments have been placed therenuts movable longitudinally of said bolts on their screw-threaded exterior for increasing the tension of said resilient garment clasps substantially as described.

FREDERICK L. OWEN. 

